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What is web 2.0 hosting? The web 2.0 buzz is propagating into the hosting industry, with more and more companies now claiming that they offer “Web 2.0 Hosting“. What is it anyway? What are the web 2.0 - specific hosting features? What would you like to see in Fast Hit’s web hosting plans that would make your web 2.0 life easier?

How fast is your internet connection? Speedtest.net provides a great service where you can test your upload and download speed to various places around the globe.

Fast Hit is now sponsoring one of the nodes - test your speed now! http://fasthit.speedtest.net/ 

In order to improve network accessibility, we moved one of our DNS servers and backup mail server to Brisbane. This is a seamless change that doesn’t require any changes in web hosting account settings (as the DNS servers are referenced by the hostname and not the IP).

So, currently Fast Hit has 3 DNS servers:

1. host-dns1 in Brisbane
2. host-dns2 in Perth
3. host-dns3 in Dallas, USA.

ColdFusion 7.0.2 / Flex 2 hosting is now available on all Fast Hit’s MX7 plans. ColdFusion 7.0.2 includes the ColdFusion Data Services and ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder 2.

Here is one of the first Flex applications hosted on the server - “My Tasting Notes Wine tracker” from www.mytastingnotes.com.au

Links:

• About Flex
• Flex Data Services 2
• Flex Whitepaper (pdf)
• Fast Hit plans supporting Flex Hosting

If you are looking for a greater flexibilty with your hosting account - we now have a solution - take a look at Fast Hit’s VPS hosting plans. A web hosting account can now be put inside a VPS (Virtual Private Server) for total security. You will also have a root or administrator access to your “server” that will allow you to configure the machine the way you want and install any program you like. ColdFusion inside VPS is not yet available, but we’re testing it. There a few customers who put each of their clients inside a separate VPS for greater flexibility.

VPS = Virtual Private Server is based on Virtuozzo which creates isolated, secure virtual environments (VEs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization, ensuring guaranteed resources and preventing applications from conflicting. Each VE performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server.

Each VPS can be rebooted independently and have users, IP addresses, processes, system libraries and configuration files. The system comes with an additional control panel that allows you to…

• Install any program you like
• Do full or incremental backups
• Check your bandwidth use
• Reboot your system
• Start/stop your system (including starting your system when it’s down)
• Change/retrieve your password
• Reinstall/repair your system
• Monitor resources used (bandwidth, memory, disk)
• Monitor and manipulate services
• Monitor and manipulate individual processes
• Open an SSH connection to your server
• View activity logs
• Move the system to a dedicated server without any downtime

That’s it! Give Fast Hit a call if you’d like to try it out.

Fast Hit Sponsored APRICOT 2006 - www.apricot.net/apricot2006/index.php

Fast Hit sponsored WebDU conference in 2006 - www.webdu.com.au